A Cloutie Dumpling is a sweetened fruit pudding, boiled in a cloth (clout), the cloth is floured giving the pudding a 'skin', this one is easily made in the Slow Cooker.
4.30 from 24 votes
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 2 hourshrs15 minutesmins
Total Time 2 hourshrs30 minutesmins
Course Dessert
Cuisine British, Scottish
Servings 8
Calories 378kcal
Equipment
Slow Cooker
weighing scales
Measuring spoons
Large saucepan
1.1 litre (2 pint) pudding basin
small bowl
silicone bowl cover or parchment paper, foil and string
Ingredients
350gramsmixed dried fruit
110gramscaster sugar
220millilitreswater
110gramsbutter
1teaspoonbicarbonate of soda
1teaspoonmixed spice
1/2teaspooncinnamon
1/2teaspoonnutmeg
2eggsbeaten
110gramsplain flour
110gramsself-raising flour
Instructions
Put the dried fruit, sugar, water, butter, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a pan and bring to the boil.
Simmer for 10 minutes. Set aside until just warm.
Add the eggs a little at a time alternating with spoonfuls of the flour. Mix well.
In a pudding basin
Grease the inside of the pudding basin with butter
Put a tablespoon of flour into the basin and move it aorund to coat the sides. Remove any excess flour.
Carefully spoon the mixture into the pudding basin.
Cover the bowl either with a reusable silicone bowl cover or with parchment paper and foil, pleated in the middle and tied around the bowl.
Place a trivet or a heatproof saucer in the base of your slow cooker, put the covered bowl on top of the trivet.
Slowly pour boiling water from the kettle until the water is about 2 inches up the side of the bowl.
Direct in the Slow Cooker
Line your Slow Cooker with baking parchment or a cake tin liner, fill the mixture into the lined slow cooker.
Cook
Cook on High for 2 1/4 hours.
Turn out onto a plate and dust with icing (confectioners) sugar, if liked.
Serve warm with custard.
Notes
Slow cookers do vary in timing, so it may take 15 minutes either side of this time. If your cooker has a clear lid, you can see the change to the top of the dumpling as it bakes. I did test this one with a skewer after 1 hour 45 minutes but the middle wasn't cooked. Lifting the lid does increase baking time, so do keep an eye on this as it reaches the 2-hour mark.Next day you can fry a slice of dumpling in butter and dust with caster sugar or fry along with your bacon and tattie scones and serve as part of a traditional Scottish breakfast.